Easyjet fares

brianposter

I was looking to book a flight on Easyjet the other day.

I looked up the fares and then, when I looked again after about ten minutes the fares seemed to have dropped about ten per cent. I booked the flight but when I looked again after about an hour the fares seemed to have returned to their original level.

Was this a new marketing strategy, some sort of individual price quotation system or simply a glitch ?

Caz3121

fares change constantly both up and down

zagfles

I booked flights a couple of weeks ago and the price changed during the booking which only took 10 mins! Went through all the screens, got the final price, entered card details and got a message that the price had gone up £10! Was still a bargain so proceeded anyway...

brianposter

Fares on point-to-point airlines fluctuate in a reasonably rational and logical manner.

It is difficult to see the point of dropping fares for just an hour unless there is a mechanism for informing potential customers that the price drop has occurred. Is there an app that allows people to monitor particular fares ?

An alternative hypothesis is that the fares are based on browsing history. This has often been suggested but I have never seen the idea attributed to a specific airline.

brianposter

zagfles wrote: »

I booked flights a couple of weeks ago and the price changed during the booking which only took 10 mins! Went through all the screens, got the final price, entered card details and got a message that the price had gone up £10! Was still a bargain so proceeded anyway...

Which airline was that, Zagfles ?

zagfles

brianposter wrote: »

Which airline was that, Zagfles ?

Easyjet...

zagfles

brianposter wrote: »

Fares on point-to-point airlines fluctuate in a reasonably rational and logical manner.

It is difficult to see the point of dropping fares for just an hour unless there is a mechanism for informing potential customers that the price drop has occurred. Is there an app that allows people to monitor particular fares ?

An alternative hypothesis is that the fares are based on browsing history. This has often been suggested but I have never seen the idea attributed to a specific airline.

Remember that your booking of the flight would have changed the price - as there is now less availability for that flight.

brianposter

I think my booking changing the price can be ruled out as it was the whole month that seemed to change.

katejo

I have been monitoring Easyjet flights for the past couple of weeks to my destination in Italy (Bologna). They have been fluctuating by small amounts (between £4 and £24). I didn't see a change while actually doing my booking.